Dr Rachel Sharples is a Lecturer of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University (WSU). She is a member of the Challenging Racism Project (CRP) and the Diversity and Human Rights Research Centre (DHRRC) at WSU and the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (CRIS). Rachel’s research interests are interdisciplinary, spanning anthropology, sociology, ethnic and racial studies, cultural studies and politics. Key areas of research include displaced persons, refugees and migrants in local and global settings; statelessness, citizenship and belonging; racism and anti-racism; and spaces of solidarity and resistance. Recent publications include anti-asylum seeker sentiment in the Australian population (*Geopolitics*), claims of anti-white racism in Australia (*Journal of Sociology*) and discrimination in sharing economy platforms (*Geoforum*). Rachel’s manuscript, *Spaces of Solidarity: Karen activism in the Thailand-Burma borderlands*, was published by Berghahn Books in 2020.
